Target.



- B. W. BATES & A. T. 0. HALE.

TARGET.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24, 1910.

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UNITED srarns PATE T orrrou.

BENJAMIN WILLIAM BATES AND ALFRED THOMAS ooRBYiv HALE, or BIRMINGHAM,

- ENGLAND.

TARGET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1912.

Application filed May 24, 1910. Serial No. 563,1 26.

170' all whom it may concern:

lie it known that we, BENJAMIN IVILLIAM Barns. gentleman, and ALFRED Tnoams Con- BYN HALE, manufacturer, subjects of the King of Great Britain, residing at 128 Great Colmore street and 264 Icknield street, Birmingham, in the county of lVarwiek, England, respectively, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Targets; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exacttlescription of the same.

Our invention comprises improvements in targets and refers to that class of such which comprise a paper, cardboard or other screen onto whichga kinematograph or other picture maybe thrown for the purpose of producing a movable object to shoot at, such. targets being illuminated at the back so that when a'bullet passes through the light shines through th'e h'ole a nd' indicates the result of the shot; the object of our said invention being to provide an improved screen wherein the holes may be readily closed without re quiring a new screen or stoppage of the shooting while the screen is being patched.

According to our invent-ion we en1ploy,. a*' double screen of eardboard,"pa1'aer' or other material each part'of the screen being movablemelativelyto the other partto close and obliterate a'hole made by a bullet. The screen consists of two pieces of paper or cardboard placed on edge either in surface contact or slightly separated, the front part being arranged to move in a different direction to the movement of the rear part. Ob viou sly if the screens are moving in opposite directions and a bullet passes through them it will be only necessary to 'move each member of the screen for a distance equal to half the diameter of the bullet in order to entirely obliterate or close the hole. As will be seen by these means we provide a con-- tinuously renewable unperforated surface for the screen on to which the picture may be thrown and in which the bullet holes may be quickly and easily obliterated.

Referring to the drawings) Figure 1. is a perspective view of one form of our screen in which the paper moves across the screen and a. third paper moves vertically between the two niain papers. Fig. 2. is a section at A-B in Fig. 1. Fig. 3. illustrates a modified form of our screen and Fig. 4. is a diagrammatic sectional view. showing the hole made by. the bullet as it passes through the two papers. I

The sheet of paper or other material is fed off a store reel across the front of the frame or screen and then back against therear surface of the front piece and on to another reel. The paper may travel horizontally, vertically or angularly. At Figs. 1 and 2 the paper travels horizontally there being a supply reel 1 and waste storage reel 2 on one side of the screen and a roll 3 on the opposite side. The paper 4 is in the form of a long strip andis fed off the reel 1 across the front of the screen, around the roll 3, on to the reel 2; guide rolls 5 being placed in front and behind the screen at each end to hold the two papers. in close contact.

Any suitable means may be employed to cause the paperto travel across the screen,

the gearing being' preferably so arranged as is cause the same amount of paper to be wound on to the reel 2 as is removed from the reel 1 or the roll 3 may be nioved 'cnd wise or any other suitable arrangeniiditmay be en'iployed to keep the paper taut. Or

each reel may be separately actuated bythe paper is moving in opposite directions;

the aperture being thus closed. Thus the target'may be used for a long time without renewal of the paper'strip and ata very small cost.

Any suitable kind of paper, cardboard or equivalent material maybe used to form the screen but itis preferably of a kind which is pierced with a clean-cut hole when the bullet passes through, such paper being also preferably of a white or like color so as-to effectually show the kinematograph picture. The paper is preferably opaque to prevent any passage of light through the screen, for which purpose it may be coated with an opaque paint.

Instead of using a single strip of paper passed twice across thascreen we may use two separate pieces each passing from a holes.

able spring .actuated devices.

feed reel to a waste storage reel, but in opback and front, with consequent economiz ing of cost. If desired the strip ofpaper may pass across the screen more than twice to further insure obliteration of the slot At Figs. ,1 and 2 we have shown an independent strip of paper 7 traveling vertically between the horizontal feed reel 8 and storage reel 9, this paper being moved at the same time as the horizontal paper or intermittently as desired, but our target may be used without this third sheet.

At Fig. 3 we have shown a side elevation of atarget in which there is a feed reel 11 and waste storage reel 12 disposed horizontally at the base of the target. The

paper 13 is fed off the reel 11 up the front of the target, around the roller 14 in front of the guide rollers 15 and on to the reel 12. A convenientmethod ofregulating the speed-"0f the reels is here illustrated consisting in mounting the said reels in slotted bearings, the surfaces of the paper on said reels being held in contact by suit- Thus if the reel is rotated by any suitable gearing, the surface contact will rotate the other reel causing the same amount of paper to be wound on one reel as is unwound from the other one, the slotted bearings compensating for alterations in the diameter of the paper reels as the paper is unwound.

At Fig. 4. we have shown an enlarged sectional View of our screen the hole 17 indicating the path of a bullet while 18'indicates bullet holes closed by a movement of each part of the screen equal to half the diameter of the bullet, the arrows indicating the directions in which the papers travel.

Instead of carrying the paper on rollers there may be two frames each carrying a disk ofpaper, one or both of which travel inan angular direction to close the shot holes. I

What we claim then is r In a target of the type illuminated at the back and so arranged that, when pierced by a bullet, light will shine through said target, the combination of a supply reel on of the screen toward one another, for the purpose specified and substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN WILLIAM BATES. ALFRED THOMAS CORBYN HALE.

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